Charles Henry Phelps

Charles Henry Phelps was born at Stockton, California, in 1853, of the Phelps family of eastern Massachusetts. He was educated at the University of California and the Harvard Law School, and practised law in San Francisco.

He edited The Californian (afterwards the Overland Monthly) in 1880–82 and published Californian Verses (1882). He later became a leading member of the New York bar and an authority on copyright law.